Job summary
Are you an amazing registered or student nurse who wants to pursue a career within Emergency Nursing and work alongside a supportive and highly regarded team that will value you as a person and will invest in your well being and career progression? Do you thrive in a fast-paced environment with a desire to deliver safe and efficient patient care? If so, and you feel you can rise to the challenge you could be just the person we are looking for so please keep reading.

Our Emergency Department is currently looking to recruit into our Registered Nursing team with applications welcome from both Adult and Paediatric trained nurses. Our Emergency Department is within a busy district general hospital and comprises of a 12 bedded Resus area which has recently been redeveloped as well as a purpose-built Paediatric area.

As a Registered Nurse you will be working in a highly demanding and diverse environment ensuring that high standards of care are delivered. This is a rewarding yet challenging role where you will prioritise patient care using early warning scores and your own clinical judgement to identify patients at risk of deterioration and ensure appropriate action is taken.

Apply now to join our team!

Main duties of the job
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

About us
We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.

We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.

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Details
Date posted: 19 October 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 5
Salary: £32,073 to £39,043 a year per annum pro rata
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time, Part-time
Reference number: 214-UEC-8328314-A
Job locations: King's Mill Hospital, Mansfield Road, Sutton in Ashfield, NG17 4JL, United Kingdom

Person Specification
Knowledge

• Essential: Good communication skills with clear written and oral skills.
• Essential: Effective organisation abilities, supervisory skills,

Qualifications

• Essential: 1st level Registered Nurse

Further Training

• Desirable: Evidence of personal and professional development

Experience

• Desirable: Experience of working an acute trauma related environment

Contractual

• Essential: Regular attendance
• Essential: Ability to work flexibly
• Essential: Involve unsociable hours

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details
Employer name: Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address: King's Mill Hospital, Mansfield Road, Sutton in Ashfield, NG17 4JL, United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://www.sfh-tr.nhs.uk/

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact: Lead Nurse Natalie Chadbourne, Natalie.chadbourne@nhs.net, 01623622515

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